Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-20
HeiVman.Hearst.

Our very friendly, esteemed and
intelligent contemporary, the Express,
does not approve of the course OF the
HERALD in its policy touching the
contest for the Senatorship. For this
We are sorry-sorry for our contem-
porary. The course of this journal
has been throughout a most consist
ent one, an intelligent one, and in
fact the only one gentlemen should
entertain. Hinc illa lachrym1!
We had a real, a sincere wish to
secure the honor for our distinguished
townsman. This desire arose from
that distinguished citizens qualifica-
tions for the office; second, from his
claims upon the party, and third,
from the fact that he is our neighbor.
There was no lukewarmness about
tho advocacy of the HERALD at any
stage in the proceedings. Words
could not express the qualification
that would have been ours had MIR.
Hellman been the choice OF our party
in the Legislature.
Now, this being so, we see no
reason why these two distinguished
citizens should be dragged before the
people in any of the odium OF unne-
cessary personal comparisons. Frank
ly we must say that Mr.. Hellman and
one or tw o other qualified Democrats o
this section being out of the question,
and being forced to go to the Bay for
our Senator, it is not disappoint-
ment to us that the choice in this
contingency should be Mr.. Hearst. In
spite of the innuendoes of our con-
temporary, and in the light Of all
that has transpired with reference to
the Senatorial election, it has not be-
come apparent to us that Mr.. Hearst
secured the honor by other than
clean methods. Elsewhere We give
the views of the San Francisco Post
on this matter, and they coincide
with ours. 1t is entirely consistent
In our mind that the "Tar
Flat" statesmen and their lead
ers, should have been ready
to sell out to some other, while in
the absence OF money, solid for
Hearst. This is the more consistent
in view of the power Hearst's paper
may exercise in opposition to his
political enemies. Men OF that stamp
will do much tor $1OO,O0O which they
will not do for nothing.
Another point on which we wish to
express a certain amount OF triste
feeling in this connection-and the
sorrow is still for our exceedingly
kind neighbor, the EIpress-is the
inability to enter into an advocacy OF
one gentleman so narrowly, so stupid
", SO like-well, not the ways OF gen.
flemen-as to feel constrained to at.
tack his opponents with personal
vituperation and able
culumny. For that is all there has
been wanting in anr advocacy of our
townsman.
And now arrived at the utmost
limit of our sorrow-and it is not a
narrow one-we would congratulate
our most frank, friendly and inteili-
gent neighbor, on the spasm OF virtu-
Gus patriotism, which is SO powerfully
working on his diaphram. Inc
times are not far distant in the past
when he had notable opportunities,
in his own State, and in his own
party, to oppose the course OF those
Who we're on their way to the United
States Senate, over paths paved
With gold. These opportunities hs
failed most signally to grasp. The
bare suspicion in the present case
that "influence" may have beer
used, is wringing his heart with sor
row. Here is a most miraculous con
version to the paths of rectitude IL
which all good citizens must rejoice